Selected publications from our network

Beckmann, M., Didenko, G., Bullock, J.M., Cord, A.F., Paulus, A., Ziv, G. & Václavík, T. (2022). Archetypes of agri-environmental potential: a multi-scale typology for spatial stratification and upscaling in Europe. Environmental Research Letters, 17(11), 115008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9cf5

Bonatti, M., Lana, M., Medina, L., Chevelev, P., Baldivieso, C., Errismann, C., Gleich, P., Rodriguez, T., Eufemia, L., Da Silva Rosa, T., Borba, J., Matavel, C., Schlindwein, S., Ison, R., Eisenack, K., Hellin, J., Pacillo, G., Vadez, V., Bossuet, J., … Sieber, S. (2024). Global analysis of social learning’s archetypes in natural resource management: Understanding pathways of co-creation of knowledge. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1161. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03590-5

Bruns, B., & Kimmich, C. (2021). Archetypal games generate diverse models of power, conflict, and cooperation. Ecology and Society, 26(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12668-260402

Buchadas, A., Baumann, M., Meyfroidt, P. et al. Uncovering major types of deforestation frontiers across the world’s tropical dry woodlands. Nat Sustain 5, 619–627 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00886-9 

Eisenack, K., Oberlack, C., & Sietz, D. (2021). Avenues of archetype analysis: Roots, achievements, and next steps in sustainability research. Ecology and Society, 26(2), art31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12484-260231 

Eisenack, K., Villamayor-Tomas, S., Epstein, G., Kimmich, C., Magliocca, N., Manuel-Navarrete, D., Oberlack, C., Roggero, M., & Sietz, D. (2019). Design and quality criteria for archetype analysis. Ecology and Society, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10855-240306

Gotgelf, A., Roggero, M., & Eisenack, K. (2020). Archetypical opportunities for water governance adaptation to climate change. Ecology and Society, 25(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11768-250406

Hampton, M. O’Hara, S. 2024. Prosperity in progress: a new look at archetypes of successful community development. Frontiers inSustainable Cities 6:1408673.  https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2024.1408673  

Levers, C., Müller, D., Erb, K., Haberl, H., Jepsen, M. R., Metzger, M. J., Meyfroidt, P., Plieninger, T., Plutzar, C., Stürck, J., Verburg, P. H., Verkerk, P. J., & Kuemmerle, T. (2018). Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe. Regional Environmental Change, 18(3), 715–732. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-015-0907-x

Magliocca, N. R., Khuc, Q. V., Ellicott, E. A., & de Bremond, A. (2019). Archetypical pathways of direct and indirect land-use change caused by Cambodia’s economic land concessions. Ecology and Society, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10954-240225

Moser, S. C., Ekstrom, J. A., Kim, J., & Heitsch, S. (2019). Adaptation finance archetypes: Local governments’ persistent challenges of funding adaptation to climate change and ways to overcome them. Ecology and Society, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10980-240228

Neudert, R., Salzer, A., Allahverdiyeva, N., Etzold, J., & Beckmann, V. (2019). Archetypes of common village pasture problems in the South Caucasus: Insights from comparative case studies in Georgia and Azerbaijan. Ecology and Society, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10921-240305

 Oberlack, C., & Eisenack, K. (2018). Archetypical barriers to adapting water governance in river basins to climate change. Journal of Institutional Economics, 14(3), 527–555. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137417000509

Oberlack, C., Pedde, S., Piemontese, L., Václavík, T. & Sietz, D. (2023). Archetypes in support of tailoring land-use policies. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 060202. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acd802  

Oberlack, C., Sietz, D., Bürgi Bonanomi, E., de Bremond, A., Dell’Angelo, J., Eisenack, K., Ellis, E. C., Epstein, G., Giger, M., Heinimann, A., Kimmich, C., Kok, M. T., Manuel-Navarrete, D., Messerli, P., Meyfroidt, P., Václavík, T., & Villamayor-Tomas, S. (2019).  

Archetype analysis in sustainability research: Meanings, motivations, and evidence-based policy making. Ecology and Society, 24(2), art26. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10747-240226 

Oberlack, C., Tejada, L., Messerli, P., Rist, S., & Giger, M. (2016). Sustainable livelihoods in the global land rush? Archetypes of livelihood vulnerability and sustainability potentials. Global Environmental Change, 41, 153–171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.10.001

Orozco, R., Meyer-Jürshof, M., Vergara-Rodríguez, K., Václavík, T., & Sietz, D. (2024). Dynamic archetypes of agricultural land systems in Germany from 1992 to 2019. Land Use Policy, 145, 107281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107281

Partelow, S., Villamayor Tomás, S., Eisenack, K., Epstein, G. B., Kellner, E., Roggero, M., & Tschopp, M. (2024). A meta-analysis of SES framework case studies: Identifying dyad and triad archetypes. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10630 

Pedde, S., Kok, K., Hölscher, K., Oberlack, C., Harrison, P., & Leemans, R. (2019). Archetyping shared socioeconomic pathways across scales: An application to central Asia and European case studies. Ecology and Society, 24(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11241-240430

Piemontese, L., Neudert, R., Oberlack, C., Pedde, S., Roggero, M., Buchadas, A., Martin, D. A., Orozco, R., Pellowe, K., Segnon, A. C., Zarbá, L., & Sietz, D. (2022). Validity and validation in archetype analysis: Practical assessment framework and guidelines. Environmental Research Letters, 17(2), 025010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac4f12

Riach, N., Glaser, R., Fila, D., Lorenz, S., & Fünfgeld, H. (2023). Climate risk archetypes. Identifying similarities and differences of municipal risks for the adaptation process based on municipalities in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Climate Risk Management, 41, 100526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2023.100526

 Segnon, A. C., Totin, E., Zougmoré, R. B., Lokossou, J. C., Thompson-Hall, M., Ofori, B. O., … Gordon, C. (2020). Differential household vulnerability to climatic and non-climatic stressors in semi-arid areas of Mali, West Africa. Climate and Development, 13(8), 697–712. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2020.1855097 

Sietz, D., Frey, U., Roggero, M., Gong, Y., Magliocca, N., Tan, R., Janssen, P., & Václavík, T. (2019). Archetype analysis in sustainability research: Methodological portfolio and analytical frontiers. Ecology and Society, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11103-240334

Sietz, D. and Neudert, R. (2022) Taking stock of and advancing knowledge on interaction archetypes at the nexus between land, biodiversity, food and climate. Environmental Research Letters 17 113004, https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9a5c 

 Sietz, D., Ordoñez, JC., Kok, MTJ., Janssen, P., Hilderink, HBM., Tittonell, P. and Van Dijk, H. (2017) Nested archetypes of vulnerability in African drylands: Where lies potential for sustainable agricultural intensification? Environmental Research Letters 12 (2017) 095006 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa768b/pdf 

Sitas, N., Harmáčková, Z. V., Anticamara, J. A., Arneth, A., Badola, R., Biggs, R., Blanchard, R., Brotons, L., Cantele, M., Coetzer, K., DasGupta, R., den Belder, E., Ghosh, S., Guisan, A., Gundimeda, H., Hamann, M., Harrison, P. A., Hashimoto, S., Hauck, J., … Valle, M. (2019). Exploring the usefulness of scenario archetypes in science-policy processes: Experience across IPBES assessments. Ecology and Society, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11039-240335

Václavík, T., Beckmann, M., Bednář, M., Brdar, S., Breckenridge, G., Cord, A. F., Domingo-Marimon, C., Gosal, A., Langerwisch, F., Paulus, A., Roilo, S., Šarapatka, B., Ziv, G., & Čejka, T. (2024). Farming system archetypes help explain the uptake of agri-environment practices in Europe. Environmental Research Letters, 19(7), 074004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad4efa

Václavík, T., Lautenbach, S., Kuemmerle, T. & Seppelt, R. (2013). Mapping global land system archetypes. Global Environmental Change, 23(6), 1637-1647. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.09.004

Vidal Merino, M., Sietz, D., Jost, F. and Berger, U. (2019) Archetypes of climate vulnerability: A mixed-method approach applied in the Peruvian Andes. Climate and Development 11(5): 418 - 434. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17565529.2018.1442804

Villamayor-Tomas, S., Iniesta-Arandia, I., & Roggero, M. (2020). Are generic and specific adaptation institutions always relevant? An archetype analysis of drought adaptation in Spanish irrigation systems. Ecology and Society, 25(1), 32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11329-250132 

Wang, R., Eisenack, K., & Tan, R. (2019). Sustainable rural renewal in China: Archetypical patterns. Ecology and Society, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11069-240332

Wang, R., & Tan, R. (2020). Patterns of rural collective action in contemporary China: An archetype analysis of rural construction land consolidation. Journal of Rural Studies, 79, 286–301. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.019